Sapa day two

Today we went to the Black Hmong village, there we saw a school, how they make incense, and also the rice patties. The school was so cool-they where playing games outside and the girls where playing hopscotch. What is interesting, is only half of your children go to school. So if you had eight children only four of them would go to school. Then we saw how to make incense, it was pretty cool, they would first make the incense base, which consisted of cinnamon, leaves, and wood. Then they would place it into molds at press together, then open, and out comes the incense. They would let it air dry then poof-there is your incense. The rice patties where amazing, they where everywhere: down the hills, up the hills and all over the hills.

But, before we saw all that, we walked, And Walked, AND WALKED, For about two and a half hours before arriving to the Black Hmong village. Also there where these ladies that would follow you all the way down the mountain and be really friendly, but when you reach the bottom they want you to buy there stuff. So there where these two girls and they followed us down to the bottom, and we did buy from them, I bought a purse and Riley bought a scarf, they are so pretty. Well that's about it so adios.


Sincerely,

Tara M. Huth

The two ladies were 20 years old and 16 years old, the 20 year old married at 16 and has 2 kids!


The rice patties

The children's class room.







The kids playing.




Incense maker.